Regional & Area Planning

Mobility justice is one of the crucial political and ethical issues of our day. We are in the midst of a global climate crisis and extreme challeng...

This work was written and compiled by the then Secretary of the Garden Cities and Town Planning Association in 1913. It shows just how much the con...

This book is the first and, so far, only publication to elaborate on all the stages of one of the many Urban Regeneration projects implemented in T...

This book sets out a road map for the provision of urban access for all. For most of the last century cities have followed a path of dependency on ...

People who live in compact, traditional towns have far smaller environmental footprints than those who live in sprawling suburbs. So why are we in ...

This book presents the findings of a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) project into urban austerity governance in eight cities acro...

John Nolens New Ideals in the Planning of Cities, Towns, and Villages is the most thorough assessment of city planning written by an American pract...

How is London responding to social and economic crises, and to the challenges of sustaining its population, economy and global status? Sustainable ...

The city of the future, we are told, is the smart city. By seamlessly integrating information and communication technologies into the provision and...

This book brings together the latest thinking in Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and considers the key question of whether the processes a...

In 1948, inspired by changes to federal law, Massachusetts government officials started hatching a plan to build multiple highways circling and cut...

Traffic in Towns, also known as the Buchanan Report, is regarded as one of the most influential planning documents of the twentieth century. The re...

Directly elected mayors are political leaders who are selected directly by citizens and head multi-functional local government authorities. This bo...

How and why do spectacular buildings get commissioned and procured? What are their visible urban effects? What can urban planners, architects, and ...

Cities are often seen as helpless victims in a global flow of events and many view growing inequality in cities as inevitable. This engaging book r...

The idea of a Greater London emerged in the 18th century with the expansion of the city's suburbs. In Landscapes of London, Elizabeth McKellar trac...

A thorough update of what was already an excellently written, accessible and well-used book. Coverage of the key issues to impact on regeneration i...

Blackpool is Britains favourite seaside resort. Each year millions of visitors come to walk on its three piers, ride donkeys, enjoy shows at the Wi...

Today, there are more than three parking spaces for every car in the United States. No one likes searching for a space, but in many areas, there is...

With trust in top-down government faltering, community-based groups around the world are displaying an ever-greater appetite to take control of the...

The first history of the bulldozer and its transformation from military weapon to essential tool for creating the postWorld War II American landsca...

With three billion more humans projected to be living in cities by 2050, all design is increasingly urban design. And with as much data now produce...

Jaqueline Tyrwhitt (1905-1983) was a British town planner, editor, and educator. This book includes four of Tyrwhitts key texts to illustrate how s...

Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floa...

Throughout the world, city planners and governments grapple with the challenges of urban planning using remarkably similar land use regimes. Yet th...

Who owns London? In recent decades, it has fallen into the hands of the super-rich. It is today the essential 'World City' for High-Net-Worth Indiv...

In urban planning, a brownfield is a former industrial or commercial site where environmental contamination hinders development. They exist in a...

In the wake of the Great Recession, American cities from Philadelphia to San Diego saw an upsurge in hyperlocal placemaking--small-scale interventi...

Land Fictions explores the common storylines, narratives, and tales of social betterment that justify and enact land as commodity. It interrogates ...

In Chicago's Industrial Decline Robert Lewis charts the city's decline since the 1920s and describes the early development of Chicago's famed (and ...